U.S. Ski & Snowboard – the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding – and STRIVR, – a Stanford University spin out startup that has created VR experiences for clients such as American football […]
The British Army’s Unit Based Virtual Training (UBVT) system created by NSC has reached full operational capability (FOC) after completing a series of events that demonstrated the system’s proficiency in collectively training troops in a […]
Airline maintenance personnel at Rolls Royce are able to practice highly complex tasks using virtual reality training due to the “massive drop in cost in the past 18 months”, according to Steve Buckland, the civil […]
The Naval Aviation Training Systems Program Office is incorporating virtual reality technology as it develops new flight simulation trainers for the F/A-18 Super Hornet, TH-57 Sea Ranger training helicopter and T-45 Goshawk jet trainer. Two […]
Revinax – a French company that provides virtual reality tutorials for medical and surgical applications – has begun using the mixed reality (MR) device – Microsoft HoloLens – to deliver demonstrations to training surgeons right […]
Neuro Rehab VR took first prize at University of Texas at Dallas’ Big Idea Competition. The medical start-up creates virtual and augmented reality therapy games to help patients with traumatic brain injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, or […]
Birmingham City University’s Digital Media Technology Lab is working on a mixed reality system that allows medical practitioners to view and interact with virtual models of organs and bones, and also change models of patient […]
Pieter Abbeel, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and students have a new start-up, Embodied Intelligence Inc., which uses deep reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence to easily teach […]
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is using advanced simulation-based training systems from CAE with the aim of doubling the number of first officers it produces annually. The Air Mobility Training Centre (AMTC) in Trenton, […]
Construction of a new mission training complex (MTC) has begun at Fort Hood, Texas, consolidating the current ten training facilities that make up the current mission training complex. The project was prompted by the need […]
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